Mounting for combined shoe-buttons and staples.



W. E. ELLIOTT.

I MOUNTING FOR COMBINED SHOE BUTTONS STAPLES. I

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1913. RENEWED 901 19. 1914.

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MOUNTING FOR COMBINED SHOE-BUTTONS AND: STAPLES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mountings for Combined Shoe-Buttons and Staples; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in means for mounting buttons and button fasteners, and more particularly to shoe buttons and fasteners for the same, and its object is to provide means whereby the buttons and fasteners may be assembled ready for insertion in a button setting tool or machine, and in definite numbers or groups, and the same iy inserted one by one in such button ving tool or machine as occasion may re- ..Lil

My invention consists essentially of an article of manufacture, comprising a strip of suitable material, buttons and button fasteners, assembled in proper relation for use, and detachably secured to said strip at regular intervals as will more fully appear by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which I Figure 1 is a perspective showing my device in position for inserting a button and fastener in a button setting tool; Fig. 2 is a plan view of my device with a portion of the buttons and fasteners removed; Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of a portion of the "same; Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail, partially "in longitudinal section, of a portion of the same; and Fig. 5 is a perspective showing a button and a fastener detached from the strip and in position assumedwhen inserted in the setting tool.

Like numbers refer to like parts inall of the figures:

1 represents any suitable strip of paper or other suitable material provided with suitable perforations or slits, whereby transverse raised loops 7 may be formed therein to receive the prongs of the staples and longitudinal openings 8 to receive the eyes of the buttons, these being arranged at regular intervals and suitably spaced and arranged so that the fasteners 4, when inserted in the eyes 3 of the buttons 2, may be arranged on the surface of the strip in regular series with their Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patented July 20 1915,,

Application filed May a, 1913, Serial No.'766,661.

Renewed October 19, 1914. Serial No. 867,536.

prongs 4" insertedunder the loops whereby the staples are detachably retained in place, and the eyes of the buttons extend throughthe openings 8 in the paper, wherebv each staple is retained in place until the eye of the button is removed from the opening in the paper by bending the paper over the finger of the operator, as illustrated in Fig. 1. When thus removed, and the paper bent as shown, the upper jaw 6 of the button setting tool 5 having a recess to receive the eye of a button may be inserted between the paper and the head of the button and the staple removed from the loops, leaving the button and staple in the tool in position for setting. Obviously, these buttonsand fasteners can also be readily inserted in like manner in the end of a tube, such as commonly used on button setting machines.

From the foregoing description, the operation of my device is readily understood. The stripswith the buttons and fasteners attached are made up as shown, as an article of manufacture, to be vended for use as heretofore described, and preferably consist of strips of suitable length with buttons and fasteners to the number used in equipping a single pair of shoes, but they may consist of a greater or less number as preferred, and the device may also be put up in the form of a card,-comprising a number of rows of buttons and fasteners side by side, and the card severed into strips as occasion requires, such modifications being obvious withou further illustration.

What I claim is 1. An article of manufacture, comprising a strip of material, a series of buttons each having an eye inserted through said material, and button fasteners inserted in the respective eyes of'the buttons and also having prongs inserted in said material whereby the buttons and fasteners respectively hold each other in place on the strip.

2. An article of manufacture, comprising a strip of suitable material, a series of buttons' arranged at regular intervals on said strip, each button having an eye irserted through an opening in said strip, and button fasteners inserted in the respective eyes to retain the buttons in place, the buttons and fasteners being arranged on the strip in proper position to be inserted in a button setting tool.

3. An article of manufacture, comprising a strip of suitable material, a series of buttons, each having an eye inserted in said material, pronged button fasteners inserted in the respective eyes of the buttons and serving to retain the eyes of the buttons in said material, and means for securing the prongs of the fasteners in fixed relation to said material.

4. An article of manufacture, comprising a strip of paper perforated at regular intervals to form loops to receive the prongs of button fasteners, and openings to receive the eyes of buttons, buttons having eyes inserted in said openings, and fasteners inserted in the eyes of the buttons and having prongs inserted beneath the loops.

5. The combination of a strip of paper, button fasteners consisting of staples detachably secured upon the surface of said strip, and buttons having eyes inserted in openings in the paper through which eyes the staples are inserted.

6. The combination of a strip of paper having transverse slits at regular intervals and spaced apart, also having raised loops between the slits, and also having openings WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

HAROLD O. VAN ANTWERP, LUTHER V. MOULTON. 

